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UMAYYAD CALIPHATE

FATIMID CALIPHATE

ABBASID CALIPHATE

How did the location of the religion of Islam help or encourage its spread?

•The Islamic religion was located on trade routes between Europe and China. •This helped make the spread of Islamic ideas and culture easier. •This is known as Cultural Diffusion.

Achievements of the Islamic Caliphates

• Cultural

Architecture (Dome of the Rock)

Mosaics

Arabic alphabet

Universities

Translation of ancient texts into Arabic

• Scientific

Arabic numerals (adapted from India, including zero)

Algebra

Medicine

Expansion of geographic knowledge

Is this True? Why or Why Not?

•The Dark Ages were really only happening in Europe and not elsewhere in the world.

•True: Europe wasn’t making any advances but the Islamic world was making many discoveries and advances

Jihad

•A holy war waged on behalf of Islam as a religious duty.

HAJJ

•the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca that takes place in the last month of the year, and that all Muslims are expected to make at least once during their lifetime.

Caliphate

• Islamic state led by a supreme religious and political leader known as a caliph – “successor to Muhammad.”

ALLAH

•The name for God, the Supreme Being, in the Arabic language; the common name for God in Islam.

QURAN / KORAN

•the Islamic sacred book, believed to be the word of God as dictated to Muhammad by the archangel Gabriel and written down in Arabic.

5 Pillars

•the five bases of the Islamic faith:•Confession of faith•Prayer•Charity•Fasting during Ramadan•Pilgrimage to Mecca